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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (1): 82–90.
Published: 01 March 2012
... and nomadic herdsmen, has some of the world’s most toxic air. The pollution is at its most intense in the winter, when over 100,000 ger stoves must work overtime to offset frigid outdoor temperatures that can dip as low as 40 degrees below zero—where Fahrenheit and Celsius overlap. In addition...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (3): 60–68.
Published: 01 September 2002
...Ricardo Bayon Copyright © 2002 World Policy Institute 2002 ENVIRONMENT
Ricardo Bayon is a fellow at the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank based in Washington D.C.
He writes on issues of finance, environment, and climate change.
More Than Hot Air...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 55–60.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Tania Karas An EU-Turkey deal intended to stem the flow of migrants to Europe has turned Greece's islands into de facto open-air prisons. Meanwhile, right-wing sentiment is now growing in regions heralded just a year ago for their selfless care of refugees, reports journalist Tania Karas. Greece...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (2): 40–52.
Published: 01 June 2015
... of pollution on the quality of air and life in China today. Chief Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police Bureau found himself sitting by the tall window of the grand river-view suite on the 39th floor of the Hyatt Hotel in Pudong, in the company of Comrade Zhao, the retired yet still powerful Secretary...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (3): 25–33.
Published: 01 September 2005
... for the navy but with little regard for possible counter
and the air force, they focus on China as a action. Like the sound of one hand clapping,
potential adversary. the scenarios presented in the report seem to
The Pentagon, after much delay for presume that China could attack...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (1): 16–22.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Mariano Ben Plotkin Copyright © 2018 World Policy Institute 2018 ESTATE OF GRETE STERN, COURTESY GALERÍA JORGE MARA-LA RUCHE, 2018 ESTATE OF GRETE STERN, COURTESY GALERÍA JORGE MARA-LA RUCHE, 2018 In 2016, Jorge Ahumada, a 76-year-old psychologist in Buenos Aires, suddenly became...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (2): 9–13.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Lester R. Brown © World Policy Institute 2015 2015 World Policy Institute The worldwide transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy is under way. As fossil fuel resources shrink, as air pollution worsens, and as concerns about climate instability cast a shadow over...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (2): 15–19.
Published: 01 June 2011
... farmers near rapidly expanding Delhi, people who have never traveled by air—indeed, whose entire families have never traveled by air—are plunking down thousands of dollars to deliver their sons to their brides in, yes, helicopters. Perhaps no one better personifies this cultural moment in India than...
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World Policy Journal (2002) 18 (4): 19–25.
Published: 01 December 2002
... types
United States faces shortfalls across all these of u a v s— the Navy’s Pioneer, the Army’s
areas— in fact, many are more than ade Hunter, and the Air Force’s Predator have
quately covered. With few exceptions, the all been used in recent conflicts. The Air
collective military...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (4): 34–41.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Anna Edgerton; Ina Sotirova Anna Edgerton, a journalist based in New York, is a former editorial assistant at World Policy Journal. She recently returned from Buenos Aires where she worked at the Argentine newspaper Clarín. Ina Sotirova is a multimedia journalist based in New York who has...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (1): 96–103.
Published: 01 March 2016
....” And sometimes, at midnight, he visits the homeless on the streets of Rome, wearing only a black cassock. But this is also the same man who, as archbishop of Buenos Aires, refused to meet the grandmothers and relatives of infants who had been torn away from their imprisoned and tortured mothers during...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (3): 90–99.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Emily Schmall Emily Schmall is a writer based in Buenos Aires and a former reporter at Forbes . © World Policy Institute 2012 2012 World Policy Institute Cares Y. Caretas Presidency of Argentina Chubut, Argentina—In mid-June, at the onset of winter in the Southern...
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Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (3): 29–42.
Published: 01 September 2002
..., there were five cabinet crises, ning of the twentieth century was a country
two presidential resignations,1 one Senate not unlike the United States. It had vast,
crisis,2 and five ministers of the economy. rich agricultural lands, substantial foreign
The streets in downtown Buenos Aires are investment...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2003) 20 (1): 25–30.
Published: 01 March 2003
... Richardson ers would undermine the pursuit of these
and Elemendorf Air Force Base in Alaska. goals.
Subsequently, the navies and air forces of the New Delhi’s recent willingness to ex
two countries conducted separate joint exer pand military-to-military contacts with the
cises, “Malabar...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (3): 94–102.
Published: 01 September 2005
... in 1977 after ousting
twentieth century, none with such great in Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in a
terest to the United States has been more nonviolent coup. He later had Bhutto tried
clouded than the mysterious air crash that and hanged for a political murder in a con
killed President...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (3): 15–22.
Published: 01 September 2001
... defense is in its infant vanced development and flight testing of
stages, and it will take a decade or more for all mobile-type ABMs (sea-based, air-based,
the technology to mature. The only thing space-based, and mobile land-based); (3) pro
pushing such deployment plans, which are hibits giving ABM...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (2): 22–30.
Published: 01 June 2014
...Meredith Hoffman Meredith Hoffman, a journalist currently working in South America, previously reported for The New York Times and DNAinfo.com. © World Policy Institute 2014 2014 World Policy Institute Photo: Elis Sperry BUENOS AIRES—When the peso hit rock bottom...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (3): 97.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Emily Schmall © World Policy Institute 2012 2012 World Policy Institute Buenos Aires—Only in Argentina. Porsche exports olives and Malbec wines. Mitsubishi has a hand in peanuts, and BMW, after an eight-month hiatus from Argentina, agreed last October to swap rice, leather, and auto parts...
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Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (3): 33–40.
Published: 01 September 2000
.... of everything lovely there, including the
American casualties in history’s largest “Confucian harmony” that once enchanted
land-sea-air battle were more than double Chinese emissaries. And if innocence can be
those on ghastly Iwo Jima and Guadalcanal quantified, the meek islanders, long lovers...
Journal Article
World Policy Journal (2001) 17 (4): 7–16.
Published: 01 December 2001
.... American allies. But the EU’s combined nu
It is worth noting that even the maximum clear weapons, aircraft carriers, and generally
force envisaged would not have been able to high-tech infrastructure make it the only
sustain the 1999 air campaign against Ser serious putative challenger for U.S...
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